You say the "East Wind" should be played by a 1000 guitars - I say maybe it should. If it were sung by ten thousanc, some may wonder if Gord's voice would drown out, but I'm sure many know that it would rise above because it is a strong one. The mean dense hard Canadian Wind I know that once blew, did very much soud like a howling wolf, regrets very much having spilt any water. I am not an apple of any color, just a yellow watermelon, only good for making sandwiches. Keep Bouncing.

You say the "East Wind" should be played by a 1000 guitars - I say maybe it should. If it were sung by 1000, some may wonder if Gord's voice would drown out, but I'm sure many know that it would rise above because it is a strong one. The mean dense hard Canadian Wind I know that once blew, did very much soud like a howling wolf, regrets very much having spilt any water. I am not an apple of any color, just a yellow watermelon, only good for making sandwiches.

A lot of references to Shakespeare's Hamlet in this song: "in th' sun", "all in all", and indirectly (to name one I think) the ever cryptic "Aqua seafoam shame". The play 'Hamlet' has taken on many rewrites over the year in works known as the First Folio, and the First and Second Quarto, and these rewrites are notoriously plagued with misquotes and best guess replacements. Now I think, Kurt being Kurt, with his love for mispelling words, purposely wrote errors into his song. Shakespeare was well aware that future players and theatre companies would basterdize his work - and he would poke fun at this in his plays. Kurt is doing the same, only in his songs. So now the question is, what was the original wording of "Aqua seafoam shame". My best back-tracking guess is "Alack, and fie for shame!" (Ophelia, actiii). He does this also in "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" with the wording "a mosquito"; I think comes from "malicho" as in "Marry, this is miching malicho. It means mischief."(Hamlet to ophelia, actiii) - without getting to deep into it, they would also work contextually.

Interesting how kurt identified with Hamlet, the prince of Denmark right towards his end, in his suicide note. What I find interesting in this song, are all the flower referecences; angel's hair, babies breath, and meat eating orchids. In shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia (Hamlet's once love interest) in her madness, wears a "fantastic garland" made up of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. She was so deep in melancholie, and trapped by famliy(and social) dynamics, that she could only express herself (sometimes in song) by making vague, abstract raferences to flowers that had then historical meanings. Her feelings and the people around her were so bound together, like a pile of peperclips - that to pull at one, you had to pull at all of them; to undertand her, those in her circle would have had to be willing to honestly look at themselves in the mirror and know their true nature, but they were unwilling, or unable, and therefore Ophelia's outburts were all painted with the same 'madness brush' and she became their scapegoat. So like Ophelia. Kurt in song wears a garland of flowers. I guess the question is, what are Kurt's reasons and what are his cryptic meanings, and reserved for what audience exactly: his lover, his God, himself, or all of them. The refrain is also kind of cryptic. Two simple line: it's as if, in the first line, he is trying to make a stand, confronting the oppressor(s), but then in the second line, he sort of whimps out and says the opposite. Or maby musically, it's inner voice/outer voice blurring, were the lister doesn't really know what is trully tought or said (or double-spoken). Perhaps, it takes on a different meaning to a different audience (a lover, himself, or God), with each repetition of the refrain.